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⇢: Drudgery Beneath a Fervid SunJuly 20th — A drive yesterday afternoon to a pond in the vicinity of Augusta, about nine miles off, to fish for white perch. Remarkables: the steering of the boat through the crooked, labyrinthine brook, into the open pond, — the man who acted as pilot, — his talking with B— about politics, the bank, the…
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⇢: Plan BStores are bottlenecks, being distribution centers and not that numerous. You kick them in the balls when you attack their distribution centers. Their stock price drops at news of such attacks, and they have no way to counter that. And their valuations are already at historic lows. Of course police might arrest and prosecute, but…
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⇢: P.I.D. BluesPoster by Jill Kroesen advertising the Monday readings at St. Mark’s Church Poetry Project, July 1975, featuring Kroesen, Pooh Kaye, Leonard Neufeld, Peter Gordon, Kathy Acker (as The Black Tarantula), Peter Seaton and Ed Friedman.
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⇢: Quitting TimeToday I left the job at which I’ve worked for the last two years, one of the more dysfunctional I’ve held besides the barbecue place boasting a back-of-house fight club, though of course I’d be lying if I pretended the last few weeks at the up-to-present job haven’t been pleasant, though of course I’d be…
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⇢: Memory LaneOne begins to realize that our national middle-class hunger to return to two decades of Depression, world war, Prohibition, Racism Unadmitted, Covert Fascination with Sex, Deadly Innocence, Isolationism, Provincialism, and Deprivation Remembered as Good Old Days has become a cultural sickness.
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⇢: Bravery, DashIn the Middle Ages learning, and even literacy, were not considered necessary acquirements for a great lord. The qualities expected of him were bravery, dash, a certain magnificence and easiness of style, perhaps the practical sense of a man of the world, but not learning. Such men set the pace for lesser landowners, and their…
